IM SPIVAK'S METHOD OF AUTOCREATIVE THERAPY Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A61M21/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine and can be used in practical psychology, mainly in psychoanalysis with detection of traumatic factors and following psychotherapeutic impact on these factors. Step-by-step detection of traumatic factors is carried out. At first therapeutist asks patient to imagine problem situation. Patient verbally describes situation which appeared in their imagination and connected with it emotions that remained in conscience. Therapeutist returns patient to episode of problem situation, when patient's feelings are either neutral, or expressed weakly with respect to future event and its participants. Patient returns into event, in which they participated in their imagination in all fullness of sensations and feelings. Therapeutist asks patient to analyse their emotions, to analyse which emotion and how strongly they experience at that moment and to report it to therapeutist. Therapeutist sets to patient the task to "unroll" gradually in their imagination problem situation (PLAY mode), attentively analysing intensity of emotions, and if their intensity grows, to stop (PAUSE mode). In PAUSE mode patient together with therapeutist analyses particular episode of problem situation. Patient under guidance of theraputist independently or with therapeutist's help finds effective forms of behavior in the episode. Therapeutist controls that emotional responses of patient in respect to event and/or its participants were either expressed weekly or were neutral. Step-by-step, alternating modes PLAY and PAUSE, patient under guidance of therapeutist changes their emotional attitude to each following episode of problem situation for neutral one. Therapeutist asks patient to imagine problem situation again and analyse emotions associated with it.

EFFECT: method makes it possible to increase efficiency of psycocorrection of patient's psychological state associated with psychotraumatic situation, as well as carry out prevention of psychological states of pathogenic direction during new appointment with earlier considered together with therapeutist psychotraumatic situation and/or situations similar to it.

4 cl, 3 ex